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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming puzzle (silly)
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Date: 11 Mar 89 05:29:41 GMT
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From klier@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Pete Klier):
> 
> main(m,n){scanf("%d",&n);for(m=n>0^n>9;n&&m*=n--;);
> printf(m?"Answer=%d\n":"error\n",m);}
> 
> with help from Jeff Conroy (jmconroy@ernie.Berkeley.EDU)

The compiler on this machine give the following error; is it wrong?

E "fact.c",L1/C44:	(syntactic)  unexpected symbol:'*='

-Miles